TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1454, 14 January 1886, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Thornes Quinn, a blacksmith, was found dead on Monday morning in his smithy at Auckland. His supposed he died in a tit. to which be wos liable.

At Auckland, in the case of tin Attorney-General (on the information of Francis Thomas Paten) versus Samuel Take and others, a'claim for *,212 to be paid back to the Board of Education, the plaintiff was nonsuited with costs. Justice Gillies held the Attorney-General had no locus standi, and it was the ditty of the Auditor-General to cause members of the Board to refund the amount if the money bad been improperly spent, The case arose through paying Assistant Inspector Peacock £2OO which the Official Assignee claimed as part of Peacock’s estate in bankruptcy. His Excellency the Governor will arrive in Wellington on Thursday, when Admiral Tryou will make bis official landing. On Monday, at Wellington, a party consisting of His Worship the Mayor, Mr Martin (Town Clerk), the Hon. A. D. B. Brandon, M.L.G., Mr E. Pearce (Chairman of the Harbor Board), and Captain Holliday, harbor master, went off in the Harbor Board’s boat to H.M.S. Nelson to welcome the Admiral. The Mayor formally invited him to a ball, to be given to him and his officers by the citizens on Thursday, and the invitation was accepted. It is understood that Admiral Tryon will be entertained at a ball by the members of the Wellington Club, on Wednesday next. It is not yet known how long the Nelson will remain in port, but it will probably be about ten days. The Admiral baa expressed a wish that no salute should be fired, and he does not wish for a guard of honor when be lands. It, is stated that H.M.S. Nelson will not visit any southern porta, but it is expected that Admiral Tryon, His Excellency the Governor, and Sir George Whitmore iei)l proceed South in the Hinemon, on a visit of inspection to the southern fortifications. , •: A telegram from Dunedin states that a fatal explofion of dynamite took p’ace in H,» Qpawa river on Saturday afternoon. Two men were engaged in removing |a snag and were rowing away after placing a fuse beneath it, when, at a distance of only five yards, an explosion took place. Both men were blown out of the boat, and one of them, Wm. Eden, a married m an with two children, was stunned and drowned. The other man clung to the boat and was got out in a half conscious k Judge Hurdcastle, for many years Resident Alagistretn and District Judge at Wellington, died on Sunday evening at Nelson at the early age of 49 years.

On Monday morning a young man named James Waller Tucker, a plumber, fell from the upper roof of the new building at Morton’s block, Christchurch. He sustained a compound fracture of the right leg, a comminuted fracture of the thigh, imd severe injuries to the head. Mary Barnes, a woman of intemperate habits,* died suddenly at Dunedin on Monday of heart disease. A woman while wading near Port Chalmers got out of her depth, and was saved after Mr Logan, a Customs officer, had gone to the assistance of three lads, who found the task of dragging her out too much. A Maori girl named Kaon, aged seven years, was drowned on Tuesday while bathing in the Punui (Auckland).

The Tarawera will take about 117 passengers to the Sounds, comprising some from every district in the colony, and quite a number from Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies. The twenty-third report of the Directors of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand shows the net profits for the past halfyear—after deducting management and other charges, providing for bad and doubtful debts—to be £18,199135. Adding thebalance from the previous half-year, and deducting the property and note tax there is available £18,762 13s sd. The Directors propose adding £IOOO to the reserve fund, carrying forward £3762 13s sd, and paying a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. At the Pesident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Tuesday afternoon. Prank McDowell was charged with having at Blenheim stolen and converted to his own use certain lots of clothing and drapery of the total value of £676,' the property of Jas. McDowell, He was further' charged with having between the sth and 17th of last November embezzled a large amount of money belonging to Jas. McDowell, by whom he was then employed. After 1 the prosecutor’s evidence was taken the case was adjourned. The case Hamersley v. White was heard at the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Tuesday. Mr Weston appeared for the plaintiff, : and Mr Gibbon for the defendant. The plaintiff sought to recover the sum of £2l on a dishonored promissory note, of which the defendant was the maker, one G. W. Ell the payee, and the plaintiff the endorsee.; . It appeared that the plaintiff went up from Timsru to argue a case in Banco tor G, W. Ell, the understanding being lhat ho was to receive 20 guineas for the argument in the case of Ell v. Harper and Ell v. Harper and another. Thr p’a’ntiff so attended, and received the promissory note now sued upon, which was dishonored on maturity. The defence was that the plaintiff knew that the promissory note was an accommodation bill. ‘His Honor gave judgment for the plaintiff for the amount of the promissory note, with interest, and costs as in the Djstrisfe** Court.

A uovel case under the Married Women’s Property Act, came before Mr Beetbam, Resident Magistrate at Christchurch, on Tuesday. E. Bromley, a general dealer, became bankrupt in November last"; A few days later his wife commenced business on her own account with a'fresh stock. The Official Assignee seized bet goods in the belief that they were her husband’s, who took part in the business, for he hud not then obtained his discharge. Mrs Bromley now brought an action for damages against the Official Assignee on the grounds that the goods were her separate property. The parties who had supplied the goods.to Mrs Bromley swore hat they looked to her alone for the payment of their claims. MrG, Harper who appeared for the defence, said the case was quite a novel one, and he ha<i been unable to find any English authorities bearing on such a state of things since the passing of the Married Women’s Property Act,,but if the men had really sold the goods to her as they stated he did not see any law to prevent her holding them, notwithstanding her husband was an undischarged bankrupt. Mr Russell appeared for the plaintiff, who obtained judgment for the value of the goods seized and;one shilling damages. Mr Beetham remarked that it would probably be found that a good many complications would arise under the working of this Married Women’s Property Act. At the annual meeting of All Saints Parish Church, Dunedin, Bishop-Neville’s offer to contribute £2OOO towards paying off the debt of the Church, provided its use is given for a Cathedral, though still carried om as a Parish Church, was accepted. ■